Donie

Where Donie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Donie.

  • Vowel-ended
Donie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls, with 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #446
    22 babies named Donie, its best rank.
  3. 1887
    Donie Bush born
    American baseball player
  4. 1902
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,219.
  5. 1945
    Donie Cassidy born
    Irish politician and businessman
  6. 1990
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Donal.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Syndonia.
Namesakes
  • Donie Bush · American baseball player, 1887–1972
  • Donie Cassidy · Irish politician and businessman, born 1945

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.